Samuel Bagg

In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"

Assistant Professor

🚨Job Alert 🚨

My department is hiring! We are advertising for three positions, including an open-subfield Assistant Professor with a focus on "Problems of Democracy," for which political theorists will be considered. Feel free to DM / email me your questions!

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/192...

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website theonion.com/doj-rem...

It’s striking how the workings of a competitive authoritarian system have already been internalized by the mainstream political press. It is now officially “politics as usual”.

Basically all my posts recently could be part of the same thread:

The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.

YouTube video by Political Philosophy Podcast Elite Capture and Democracy with Samuel Bagg

youtube version of my interview with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social

youtu.be/nBSqYFDpDhc?...

And yet the same poll has the 2026 generic congressional ballot at D+3, so that high disapproval is coming entirely from partisan Democrats themselves. If you've ever wanted to challenge an ineffective Democratic incumbent, you're not going to have a better opportunity than next year.

Thrilled to have contributed to this wonderful symposium!

Did a news roundup, mostly because, under cover of Epstein, Dem leaders pulled a fast one on the grassroots voters demanding they fight harder—on the grounds that quitting is easier, and those of us holding them to a high standard pretty much suck. www.offmessage.net/p/jeffries-m...

The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...

The defunding of public media, the gutting of the Washington Post and LA Times, and the cancelation of Stephen Colbert by Paramount is all connected. It's part of a hostile takeover of our entire information space by the oligarchs.

www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

I think Rogan is a mostly dumb guy and his feelings here are genuine. I also think it is very good for Rogan to express moral outrage at this stuff.

As Death Toll Rises in TX Floods, DOGE Cuts May Have Set Victims Up for Disaster Texas officials laid blame on faulty forecasts by the National Weather Service, whose expert staff was gutted by Trump.

Texas officials laid blame on faulty forecasts by the National Weather Service, whose expert staff was gutted by Trump.

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

Happy 4th of the July to the folks who will not yield the debate for what America will be.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. ● He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners. ● He has obstructed the Administration of Justice ● He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people ● He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. ● For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world. ● For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent. ● For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury. ● For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences. ● For (. . .)altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments. ● He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.

Happy Fourth of July www.liberalcurrents.com/unfit-to-be-...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

Voters have so little to do with what government actually does. Every few years they vote like 51-49% for a party to control branches of government. Then the only major legislation the government does is stuff that voters hate, like this bill. Then the process repeats.

This looks fantastic!

last night the republicans passed a budget to turn america into a nation of roving masked thugs and concentration camps and this is what democrats are doing still on sunday morning news programs instead of telling their interviewers to shut the fuck up and stop changing the subject

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

I just love that @perrybaconjr.bsky.social put this out before zohran won. Now everybody’s saying it:

1 Be interesting w/ media

2 Run against establishment/wealthy

3 Recruit candidates on vibes, not moderation or fundraising

4 Focus on low trust/sporadic/young voters

andrew cuomo is emblematic of everything people despise about the democratic party and zohran is everything people want in politics, he represents hope for a better world

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.

It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."

A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."

One month apart.

I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community.

I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care?

No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.

Trump has not only pardoned insurrectionists who tried to violently overturn an election result but is now “settling” lawsuits by those insurrectionists, giving them multimillion dollar rewards for their political violence.

There’s a straight line to the Minnesota assassin trying to seize…